A reader writes:I sent you an e-mail a while ago about the fact that Ron Paul supporters had a table and banners set up at the San Francisco Gun Show – the only politician to do so. I just got back from a month of fishing in rural Idaho and Montana and I lost count of the number of Ron Paul signs that I saw in yards and in cars. I’d guess I saw 20 or 25 in all. I did not see a single sign for any other current presidential candidate, but did see many, many old Bush/Cheney bumper ...

While Stephen Colbert may be getting the lion’s share of the press’ attention (even more than actual Presidential candidate Bill Richardson), the crew at AfterElton look back on Jon Stewart and The Daily Show’s greatest gayest moments. Among the highlights: Colbert’s breaking news about technological advances in the field of Gaydar, leaving talking-head Bill Bennett at a loss for words and the above clip slamming the flimsy backbone of the supposed “liberal” media.”A Look Back at Jon Stewart’s Greatest Gay Moments” [AfterElton] ...

As Mike Connery at Future Majority observes, Stephen Colbert is the first presidential candidate to reach one million supporters on Facebook. Considering that Colbert announced his campaign about a week ago, that’s pretty damn impressive. Yeah, I know Colbert is a fake candidate running a fake campaign. It is Facebook after all and things like this tend to go viral there. This does, however, hint at the potential power of using Facebook, not necessarily as a frontline recruitment tool, but definitely as a way to get people to tag themselves as a supporter of a candidate or issue. We ...

Phill Wilson of Black AIDS Institute called my attention to a poll that AOL is running which asks respondentst to vote on whether they would support a Presidential candidate who does not have a National AIDS Strategy. Mad Professah had blogged previously about the proposed National AIDS Strategy that numerous groups have agreed to promote jointly last month.To date, only Barack Obama and John Edwards have publicly released comprehensive national strategies to combat HIV/AIDS in the United States. Black AIDS Institute has analyzed Edwards' plan not not Obama's plan (which oddly enough ...

Ouch! Mormon presidential candidate Mitt Romney lost a crucial endorsement. Southern Baptist leader Don Wilton rescinded his support: While I did give my consent to the local campaign to use my affirmation of the governor’s stance on family values in my capacity as an individual citizen, I made the mistake of not realizing the extent to which it would be used on a national basis. It was my personal error to agree to support Romney’s campaign. As has anyone else who uses their name, likeness or influence to get the flip-flopping Republican in the White House. ...

OneNewsNow.com asked: Using your own definition of ‘conservative,’ which GOP presidential candidate best qualifies for that label? You said: ...

If this isn’t bizarre, and very telling of their true nature, I don’t know what is. A Republican oriented blog is forcing not only its authors, but also its readers to cease discussion of Ron Paul immediately: Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with ...

After watching a rather humorous Colbert on NBC’s Meet the Nation on Sunday morning I was flipping through the channels and ended up watching an interview of presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is a Mormon, and much of the interview was about his religion. I found something he said several times rather interesting. Whenever Romney was asked about his religious beliefs he refused to answer the question and said he would defer to those who study his religion. There is the obvious conclusion about this that Romney cannot make his own beliefs, but I am not writing this to bash ...

Despite hundreds and thousands of outraged cries, the House Committee on Education and Labor voted 27-21 to pass a non-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The bill, which tosses trans folks on their asses, will now head to the House of Representatives. As PageOneQ points out, four Democrats voted to stop the bill from going forward: New York’s Yvette Clark, Loretta Sanchez of California, New Jersey’s Rush Holt and Ohio’s tiny presidential candidate, Dennis Kucinich. ...

Harnessing her lawyerly powers, Shirley Phelps Roper wants to set the record straight about what happened with her evil father, Fred and presidential candidate Fred Thompson. In a note to cutie-pie Good As You: I inquired of this matter more closely and this is what I learned: During the Tomson vs Stephen trial when Fred Thompson was here in Topeka, he spent some time visiting with my dad. During the course of that visit, they had some discussions about the scriptures - Thompson talked about a verse in Acts 1 or 2 about baptism; Thompson went to the verse; asked ...